26Earth to the Moon
The rocket in Jules Verne’s 1865 story From the Earth to the Moon launched from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean because of Verne’s calculations. In 1969, Apollo 11 took off from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean.
27. The highest g-force voluntarily experienced by a person was 46.2 g's by John Stapp. He rode a rocket sled that reached a top speed of 632 mph, the land speed record at the time and he stopped in 1 second. For a brief moment his body weighed 7700 pounds.
28. In the original version of The Princess and The Frog, by the Brothers Grimm, the princess does not kiss the frog to turn it into a prince but rather throws the frog at a wall as hard as she can which breaks the curse on the frog and turns it back into a prince.
29. Black Forest Ham comes from the Black Forest region of Germany, where it was originally coated with beef blood to give it its dark color.
30. The Beechcraft Bonanza airplane is nicknamed "the doctor killer". This is due to the number of wealthy professionals who take up flying as a hobby and end up crashing in it.
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31Death by starvation
The book "death by starvation", written by Hegesias of Cyrene, a philosopher who believed that life was futile and advocated for suicide, was so influential that it convinced a number of people to kill themselves. Subsequently, Hegesias was banned from teaching in Alexandria.
32. In 2010, Nickelback approached Dark Horse Brewery about having their beer featured in a video, which would have meant great exposure for the small Michigan brewery. They declined, however, as “none of us at the brewery really care for the band.”
33. A Nigerian Contractor named Joseph Blankson died while saving 13 victims of a boat accident. He swam in and out of a river 13 times to rescue the passengers. Suffering from exhaustion, he drowned on the 14th rescue attempt. He was the only fatality in the accident.
34. John von Neumann was a child prodigy who could divide eight-digit numbers in his head by age 6 and learned calculus by age eight. He developed computer architecture that virtually all computing devices use today. He became a US strategic adviser and his game theory led to the MAD doctrine.
35. Stephen King got hit by a minivan on June 19, 1999. King had multiple injuries (collapsed right lung, broken hip, and more). King did recover, fortunately, and bought the car, but it got crushed in a junkyard. King was disappointed because he wanted to smash the car.
